Necessary Goal

September 6, 1985

DOUGLAS PIKE'S column was enlightening about Third World poverty and population control.

When will this government and others come to realize that if they would put their efforts into educating the people on birth control and do everything in their power to make artificial birth control methods available, there would be enough clothes, food and jobs to go around?

When will the people realize that overpopulation is a sickness that drains governments and people of their potential? Contraception is not a dirty word; it is a necessary word and goal. Without population control, not only do the poor become poorer, but you and I become poorer feeding, clothing, doctoring, educating, incarcerating, housing and burying hundreds of thousands of people who never will reach any potential and add to society, but only take from it. Michael Edwards